From kindergarten to elderly people. A macro view of the teaching of statistics

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to show how we can teach Statistics at all levels of life. Applying the qualitative method of participative observation I will present the outcomes obtained in many years of teaching. When the education law was implemented, statistics was incorporated into the math programs, but the teachers, as in their curriculum did not have statistics, had no knowledge about it; they need training and that was a great challenge. So, professors of statistics from the university were called to capacitate teachers. I was one of them. I taught statistics to kindergarten teachers and the results were amazing, then to teachers of initial and secondary level. I will present some papers done by the students since the practice was the feed-back with the students in the classrooms. As a university professor I am in charge of Biostatistics at the Faculty of Veterinary Sciences of the National University of Rosario. I also teach on postgraduate courses of Statistics and to elderly people as extension function. This macro vision of teaching statistics and the results show how the teaching of statistics has no age limits.